On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.